Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Designed landscape - belvedere
Whitechurch, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Belfry (1935)
- Coordinates
- 51.98266, -8.51478
- SMR number
- CO063-095----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as circular structure on W side of R.C. chapel; named 'Belfry' on 1904 OS 6-inch map. Tall stone-built circular tower built in 1832 by Fr. Matthew Horgan (Mulcahy 1989, 23). Door opes on ground and first floors; several pointed window opes; embattled parapet supported by corbels; bell still in situ. Similar tower at Waterloo (Ballygibbon) near Blarney.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.